Some claim that the case will have a chilling effect on web publishing.
This can help determine which ads attract the most attention and where they might be placed for the best effect on a web page.
Still, Firefox's advances have already had their intended effect: to present web surfers with a viable alternative to the monopoly, and thus to restart much-need innovation in browser technology, even by Microsoft itself.
The effect is of a great web of connections, a cracking glaze which seems to run ahead of you as you read.
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People magazine recently adopted responsive design to great effect in order to scale traditional Web content across screens.
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Widget makers say the collection of users' Web-browsing activity is an unintended side effect of how the tools work.
Likewise, if web surfers don't pass on information, weary perhaps from too many messages that threaten all sorts of awfulness if they are not passed to at least ten people in less than ten minutes, or just web-weary in general, then the effect of viral marketing soon fizzles out.
Predator removal can cause a cascading effect that destabilizes the entire marine food web and, in turn, our oceans.
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My belief is that Flipboard is going to have a seismic effect on the way we experience certain web-related activities.
As mobile devices now become, in effect, computers for accessing the wider web, these online services are also moving from stationary to mobile use.
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As a journalist, I think we should not be complaining so loudly about this judgement but accept it as a necessary side-effect of the increasing acceptance of the web as a publishing medium.
"Peer-to-peer will have the same effect on the Internet that the World Wide Web did, " he maintains.
We don't yet know which species will benefit, and which will suffer in response to the changes, but because each species plays a specific ecological role on the tundra, the downfall of one species or proliferation of another could have a domino effect that disrupts the tundra's delicate food web.
Many dread the effect on their margins of greater price transparency and the web equivalent of shopping around.
In effect, Forbes is embracing the notion that a great magazine or web site is a shared experience, both in its creation and consumption.
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Thanks to Digg's rebels, the HD-DVD encryption code has become another victim of the "Streisand effect, " an increasingly common backlash that occurs when someone tries to muzzle information on the Web.
According to a July survey by Sage Software, which sells accounting programs, 80% of small firms in the U.S. say that the Internet has little or no effect on their operations, and nearly two thirds have no plans to do business on the Web.
According to a July survey by Sage Software, which sells accounting programs, 80% of small firms say the Internet has little or no effect on their operations, and nearly two-thirds have no plans to do business on the Web.
Soon after the dawn of commerce on the World Wide Web in 1995, a passel of entertainment giants and new-media boutiques tried creating online entertainment, to little effect.
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